For conspicuous gallantry and devotion during an attack on
Moirosi's Mountain, on the 8th April, 1879, in volunteering to
throw time fuse shells, as hand grenades, over a line of stone
barricades, from behind which, the enemy, were bringing a heavy
fire to bear on the Colonial Troops, and which it was impossible
effectually to return. After causing all the men of his party to
retire under cover, lest the shell should burst prematurely,— by
which precaution many lives were in all probability
saved,—Sergeant Scott advanced in a most deliberate manner under
a heavy fire, and, having got under the wall, made two attempts
to throw shells over it. At the second attempt, owing to some
defect in the fuse, which he had just lighted, the shell
exploded almost in Sergeant Scott's hands, blowing his right
hand to pieces, and wounding him severely in the left leg.

Scott served with the Kimberley Light Horse during the
1899-1902 Anglo- Boer war.